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Casey Luskin

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May 14, 2020

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Scientific Freedom
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, Andrew Moore, BioEssays, CDC, censorship, COVID-19, Dave Speijer, democracy, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, Federal Government, free speech, intelligent design, Iran, Italy, Karl Popper, Paul Nelson, schools, search engines, social media, South Korea, Thomas Paine, University of Amsterdam, vaccine, White House}

Prominent Biology Journal Demands Government Censorship of Intelligent Design

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May 14, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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A scientist calls for censorship while having the chutzpah to quote from Thomas Paine, a foremost spokesman for free speech in Western democracy. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

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May 13, 2020

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Evolution
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, active information, BIO-Complexity, Darwinian evolution, E. coli, equilibrium, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fitness landscape, genetic algorithms, genome, Jonathan Bartlett, Long Term Evolution Experiment, mathematician, Michael Behe, mutations, Richard Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, William A. Dembski}

New Papers Explore the Utility of Active Information

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May 13, 2020

Evolution

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William Dembski and Robert J. Marks developed the concept of active information to measure the extent to which a search function appears pre-programmed to find some target. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

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May 13, 2020

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Physical Sciences
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, BIO-Complexity, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earth, exoplanets, fuel, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, NASA, rockets, solar system, The Privileged Planet}

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

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May 13, 2020

Physical Sciences

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A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
May 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, atheism, Dan Graur, ENCODE, Evolution News, fitness, genome, Genome Biology and Evolution, intelligent design, junk DNA, molecular evolution, mutations, predictions, Science (journal), University of Houston}

Paper Shows that “Mutational Load” Arguments Don’t Refute ENCODE

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May 1, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Perhaps one of ENCODE’s staunchest critics has been Dan Graur, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
April 30, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, anagenesis, Ann Gauger, annus horribilis, Associated Press, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus anamensis, Bernard Wood, BIO-Complexity, Denisovans, Ethiopia, genetic diversity, gradualism, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human evolution, human origins, Nature (journal), Ola Hössjer, paleoanthropology, population genetics, primates, punctuated equilibrium, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Magazine}

A Disappointing Decade for the Study of Human Evolution

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April 30, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Perhaps in ten years we’ll be having this conversation again — and perhaps at that time the Smithsonian Institution will give us all a more objective analysis of the evidence. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
February 6, 2020

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, Adam Marcus, evolution, evolutionists, Granville Sewell, hallucination, intelligent design, Retraction Watch, Second Law of Thermodynamics}

Getting “Intelligent Design” Backward

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February 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That framing is backwards, or perhaps upside-down, probably in order to make the paper by Granville Sewell sound unreasonable. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
January 7, 2020

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Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Technology
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, __edited, Annual Review of Genetics, Cell (journal), CRISPR, DNA, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, functionality, gene duplication, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, proteins, pseudogenes, RNA, terminology, Thomas Kuhn, transcription}

Nature Reviews Genetics — Pseudogene Function Is “Prematurely Dismissed”

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January 7, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Technology

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As Seth W. Cheetham and his co-authors put it, biology suffers from “demotivation into exploring pseudogene function by the a priori assumption that they are functionless.” Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
December 27, 2019

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Evolution
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, __edited, APOB, Cell (journal), cholesterol, Darwin Devolves, high fat diet, Liu et al. (2014), medical literature, Michael Behe, mutations, polar bear, Polar Bear Seminar, PolyPhen-2, Shiping Liu}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Polar Bear Seminar

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December 27, 2019

Evolution

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Barring startling new revelations from the research community, nothing more needs to be said. The evidence comes down decisively on Behe’s side. Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
November 18, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
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, __edited, adenine, Andrew Moore, BioEssays, Biological Information: New Perspectives, cytosine, DNA, ENCODE, evolution, Francis Crick, function, genome, guanine, intelligent design, junk DNA, Leslie Orgel, narrative gloss, overlapping codes, proteins, selective pressure, thymine}

BioEssays Editor: “‘Junk’ DNA… Full of Information!” Including Genome-Sized “Genomic Code”

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November 18, 2019

Intelligent Design

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How many times have we heard it claimed that the vast majority of the human genome is “junk” and therefore could not have been designed? Read More ›

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Casey Luskin

Date
November 12, 2019

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Evolution
Science Education
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, __edited, Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, Christianity Today, Congress, Darwinism, Evangelical Christians, Evolution News, naturalism, Ola Hössjer, Phillip E. Johnson, PragerU, Santorum Amendment, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, U.S. Constitution}

More on Christianity Today and Phillip Johnson’s Legacy in Science Education and Law

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November 12, 2019

Evolution, Science Education

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If he could speak to us now, Johnson might remark that his 2019 obituary shows how times have changed — and not necessarily for the better. Read More ›